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One of the most active areas of pharmaceutical research in 2022 is the search for drugs and compounds that affect Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), which is increasing in size as the aged population grows, with 6.2 million individuals with AD and expected to reach 12.7 million in the US alone by the year 2040.Currently, there are over 140 agents being assessed in human clinical trials as of 2022, and most are disease modifying agents targeting a wide variety of biological processes in AD. Compou …

Infections and disease are as old as life itself and occurs in all organisms from the smallest bacterium (they get infected by viruses) to the largest land mammals, where humans are the most vulnerable to infectious disease by way of mobility, transmission, and by shear numbers at 7 billion people on the planet and counting.Antibiotics, chemicals which stop or slow the growth of microbes, were first described by dye chemist Paul Ehrlich in 1909 after he noticed that certain dyes colored t …

One of the most common reactions used in chemistry is based on the reactivity of diazomethane, a chemical reactant first described in 1884 by Von Perchman, who generated it using nitrosoalkyl urethanes with alkali, and who lived to tell the tale. He was lucky as what Von Perchman may have found out is that diazomethane, once generated in a flask, has the tendency to explode, and has to be handled in the cold and with special glassware.Today, this reagent still strikes terror in the he …

A catalyst is a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction, or lowers the temperature or pressure needed to start one, without itself being consumed during the reaction. Catalysis is the process of adding a catalyst to facilitate a reaction. CP Lab Chemicals can provide a wide array of organometallic catalysts used in organic chemistry, hydrogenation reactions and chiral synthesis, with BINAP, Ferrocene-Palladium, and SEGPHOS catalysts readily available, of hi-purity and also available in …

Carbohydrates are the most plentiful organic compounds on Earth, amd CP Lab Chemicals collects and provides them all for research, the food and flavor industry, and for commercial uses.  Carbohydrates as molecules range from the simplest possessing the formula C-HOHx, (notice its a hydrated carbon) and medically important glucose C6H12O6,  to more the more common and complex disaccharides we are all familiar with, such as sucrose (table sugar) and lactose, which is difficult …